Our Programmes

Art Journaling

31st January 2025 - 2nd February 2025

Facilitator: Jo Beal

Be inspired to draw, and harness this skill to reflect creatively and capture your life and the world around you.

Kickstart or boost your creative habit with Jo’s Adventures in Art Journaling weekend retreat. The focus will be on drawing, enjoying drawing, and using drawing to gain new skills, having fun along the way!

Event time: 31st January 2025 4:00pm - 2nd February 2025 4:00pm

Interested in spreading the cost of this course? Select Clearpay at checkout.

What Is Included

For the majority of our courses, both residential and non-residential rates are available. Residential options are fully inclusive with all meals provided. Non-residential options include suppers, lunches and all refreshments and exclude B&B. Some of our short day courses, events and talks do not include meals and refreshments. For more details about this course, please see the Practical Information section below.

Additional Activities

Mindful walking through our woodland trails
Meditate in our Woodland Sanctuary
Go on a hike and explore the Cotswolds AONB
Discover surrounding charming market towns

At a Glance

Build confidence in and enjoy your drawing
Use your drawing to creatively reflect on and capture your life and the world about you
Explore a range of creative approaches to making journal pages
Try out drawing and creative lettering techniques
Suitable for beginners and anyone wanting to boost their drawing and creativity

What You Will Gain

Discover an amazing creative habit
Gain confidence in your drawing
New ideas for creating personal and thoughtful journal pages

Booking Options

Residential (single)Residential single rate

£440.00

Residential (shared)Residential shared rate

£390.00

Non-residentialNon-residential rate

£310.00

Interested in spreading the cost of this course? Select Clearpay at checkout.

Art Journaling Tutors

Jo Beal

More about Art Journaling

Starting on Friday evening you’ll begin your Adventures in Art Journaling with an introduction from Jo, and then get relaxed and focused for a weekend of drawing and creative discovery with a colourful and fun warm-up exercise.

Throughout the weekend you’ll explore a range of creative approaches and different ways to making journal pages, including maps and mapping to reflect on and capture a walk or journey, breaking things down to visually tell the story of a place or location, and drawing what you love! We’ll take inspiration from Hawkwood itself, inside and out, favourite and found objects, and from moments experienced during the weekend.

Jo will come with masses of examples, step-by-step guidance and demonstrations to inspire and support you. There’ll be plenty of time for you to create your own amazing journal pages each day.

With fun warm-up activities, drawing techniques and tips, themed drawing sessions, and ideas for using creative lettering, by the end of the weekend you’ll be thinking of all kinds of creative ways to draw and capture moments in your journal.

Bring sketchbooks or current journals to share and show others, if you’d like to. Jo will bring all her ‘drawing diaries’ and sketchbooks along with books that she’s gained inspiration from over recent years. This retreat is suitable for beginners or anyone wanting to boost their drawing skills or creativity.

Practical Information

Check in is from 4pm, with the first group activity being dinner as a group at 6:30pm.

Please bring outdoor wear as you may spend elements of the course outside.

“I have absolutely loved Jo’s course. Starting out as someone who didn’t think they could draw particularly, it has given me so much confidence, offering ways in to drawing and ways of seeing and interpreting what is around us. Brilliant!”

Previous Participant

About Hawkwood

Hawkwood is a stunning Grade Il listed 19th Century country house, surrounded by 42 acres of sustainably managed woodland, farmland, and gardens. Set in the heart of the Cotswolds - an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - it is a sanctuary away from the hustle and bustle of modern life. With a diverse selection of nearly 150 courses, there's plenty to choose from, including courses in transformative leadership, future thinking, inner life, music and the arts.

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